- Yachting and associated images

251. ZHE HAI 1 (2012/22295grt/30000dwt/IMO 9567489, launched as ZHE HAI 701) sailing from Auckland, New Zealand bound for Wellington following her maiden call. At left is the Swiss-registered yacht...
Date: 29 January 2013
Image ID 8584

252. HARLEQUIN and TICKLED PINK - engaged in a tacking duel on Aucklands' Waitemata Harbour as the container ship AGLAIA berths in the background.
Date: 2 February 2013
Image ID 8642

253. OOSTERDAM (2003/82305grt/10965dwt/IMO 922128) sailing from Auckland, NZ bound for Wellington. As is usual, yachts still rule the harbour as here during the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron mid-week...
Date: 20 February 2013
Image ID 8688

254. GEORGIA ONE - racing in Royal NZ YAcht Squadrons' mid-week series, Waitemata Harbour, Auckland.
Date: 20 February 2013
Image ID 8695

255. THELMA - Built in 1897, and rare in that she was built outside New Zealand but designed by Arch Logan, the gaff-rigged Thelma was for many years seen racing in Mediterranean waters before she was...
Date: 29 March 2013
Image ID 8796

256. KOTA LIHAT (2013/41678grt/51822dwt/IMO 9628324) inbound to Auckland (the City of Sails) from Brisbane, Australia for her maiden call. She is owned and managed by Pacific International Lines of...
Date: 17 March 2014
Image ID 9495

257. A midweek sailor makes the most of a fine afternoon on Auckland's Waitemata Harbour.
Date: 21 August 2014
Image ID 9672

258. FRENCH CONNECTION (Sail No: 9323) inbound to Auckland following a morning on the Waitemata Harbour.
Date: 13 October 2014
Image ID 9759

259. STEINLAGER 2 an 89' ketch, passes inbound to Auckland's Viaduct Basin. Now owned and operated by the NZ Sailing Trust STEINLAGER 2, when skippered by the late, great, Sir Peter Blake, took line...
Date: 20 November 2014
Image ID 9822

260. MAERSK VIRGINIA (2002/50686grt/62007dwt/IMO 9235531, ex-MAERSK GEELONG) outbound from Auckland bound for Tauranga. The 89' ketch STEINLAGER 2 passes inbound to Auckland's Viaduct Basin. Now owned and...
Date: 20 November 2014
Image ID 9824

261. HAPPY DRAGON (2011/14784grt/18103dwt/IMO 9551961) with a largo cargo of sundry sailboats and motor launches, arriving Auckland from Palm Beach, Florida. She is owned and managed by Spliethoff's...
Date: 23 November 2014
Image ID 9834

262. The yacht LARA high on the rocks, Okahu Bay, Orakei, Auckland. Had the skipper been celebrating New Year too hard. There had been no storms, just a stiff breeze.
Date: 1 January 2015
Image ID 9899

263. YACHT EXPRESS (2007/17951grt/12500dwt/IMO 9346029) a semi-submersible heavy load carrier operated by Spliethoff's of Amsterdam, prepares for sailing from Auckland bound for Golfito, Costa Rica. She...
Date: 26 January 2015
Image ID 9955

264. YACHT EXPRESS (2007/17951grt/12500dwt/IMO 9346029) a semi-submersible heavy load carrier operated by Spliethoff's of Amsterdam, prepares for sailing from Auckland bound for Golfito, Costa Rica. She...
Date: 28 January 2015
Image ID 9939

265. ANL EUROA (2010/18326grt/23338dwt/IMO 9433066, ex-NOBLE ACRUX, OS SAMSUN) framed by Explore NZ's two Americas Cup racing yachts NZL 68 and NZL 41, outbound from Auckland, next stop Tauranga in the Bay...
Date: 7 February 2015
Image ID 9963

266. YACHT EXPRESS (2007/17951grt/12500dwt/IMO 9346029) a semi-submersible heavy load carrier operated by Spliethoff's of Amsterdam, prepares for discharge after arriving in Auckland from Sydney,...
Date: 20 January 2016
Image ID 10305

267. RAWHITI (A2) a 1905-built Bermudan cutter makes a splendid sight during the 176th Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta on 1 Feb 2016.
Date: 1 February 2016
Image ID 10353

268. RAWHITI (A2) a 1905-built Bermudan cutter makes a splendid sight during the 176th Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta on 1 Feb 2016.
Date: 1 February 2016
Image ID 10354

269. RAWHITI (A2) a 1905-built Bermudan cutter makes a splendid sight during the 176th Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta on 1 Feb 2016.
Date: 1 February 2016
Image ID 10355

270. RAWHITI (A2) a 1905-built Bermudan cutter makes a splendid sight during the 176th Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta on 1 Feb 2016.
Date: 1 February 2016
Image ID 10356

271. RAWHITI (A2) a 1905-built Bermudan cutter makes a splendid sight during the 176th Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta on 1 Feb 2016.
Date: 1 February 2016
Image ID 10357

272. RAWHITI (A2) a 1905-built Bermudan cutter makes a splendid sight during the 176th Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta on 1 Feb 2016.
Date: 1 February 2016
Image ID 10358

273. NZL 41 a former Americas Cup race yacht, is today operated by Sail NZ of Auckland as a tourist venture on the city's Waitemata Harbour.
Date: 24 November 2016
Image ID 10721

274. EMERALD PRINCESS (2007/113561gt/IMO 9333151) makes a mid-morning call into Auckland from Sydney while those aboard the ketch PONSONBY SCOW get a really close close-up. EMERALD PRINCESS, in her first...
Date: 4 February 2017
Image ID 10837

275. EMERALD PRINCESS (2007/113561gt/IMO 9333151) makes a mid-morning call into Auckland from Sydney while those aboard the ketch PONSONBY SCOW get a really close close-up. EMERALD PRINCESS, in her first...
Date: 4 February 2017
Image ID 10838

276. TE KOUMA - Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron's committee boat making for Westhaven Marina. Built in 2003 by Profab Engineering of Palmerston North, New Zealand she has a top speed of 25.5kts.
Date: 23 March 2018
Image ID 11255

277. TE KOUMA - Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron's committee boat making for Westhaven Marina. Built in 2003 by Profab Engineering of Palmerston North, New Zealand she has a top speed of 25.5kts.
Date: 23 March 2018
Image ID 11254

278. Race yachts depart Cobh, County Cork, Ireland.
Date: July 2018
Image ID 11376

279. WILD - a 7.27m, Bruce Farr-designed Farr 727, built in 2001 by Cookson Yachts of Auckland.
Date: 4 August 2018
Image ID 11502

280. ALEGRE (10033), a 12.3m Soto 40 built by M Boats of Argentina and ANARCHY, a YD37 designed by Brett Bakewell-White and built by Yachting Developments of Auckland, in a close head-to-head race toward...
Date: 17 October 2018
Image ID 11501

281. WEDGETAIL (Sail No. 9442) - a 12.82m Welbourne 42-class keelboat built in 2005 by Cos And Co, seen here returning to Auckland’s Westhaven Marina.
Date: 8 December 2018
Image ID 11576

282. AUCKLAND COASTGUARD (ASB RESCUE) departs Westhaven Marina.
Date: 23 March 2019
Image ID 11708

283. AUCKLAND SEAPLANES - the pilot of the 1961-built de Havilland Beaver floatplane eases back the throttle for another touchdown on Auckland's increasingly busy weekend harbour.
Date: 23 March 2019
Image ID 11709

284. LADYBIRD - a 10.4m keelboat, once owned by the well-known Blake family of Bayswater, Auckland, inbound to Westhaven marina, Auckland. She was built by BS & J Woolacott.
Date: 28 April 2019
Image ID 11744

285. BALTHASAR SCHULTE (20012/40542grt/IMO 9477610) outbound from Auckland en-route to Tauranga. Was shooting this ship when this happens? How dare those ****** Americas Cup yachties get in the way. "TE...
Date: 18 September 2019
Image ID 11896

286. MOANA CHIEF (2011/IMO 9516741/18358grt/23305dwt/1740TEU, ex-HANSA LUDWIGSBURG) - China Navigation's New Zealand-registered containership approaches Auckland this afternoon providing a backdrop to some...
Date: 16 January 2020
Image ID 11941

287. MOANA CHIEF (2011/IMO 9516741/18358grt/23305dwt/1740TEU, ex-HANSA LUDWIGSBURG) - China Navigation's New Zealand-registered container ship approaches Auckland this afternoon providing a backdrop to...
Date: 16 January 2020
Image ID 11942

288. MOANA CHIEF (2011/IMO 9516741/18358grt/23305dwt/1740TEU, ex-HANSA LUDWIGSBURG) - China Navigation's New Zealand-registered container ship approaches Auckland this afternoon providing a backdrop to...
Date: 16 January 2020
Image ID 11943

289. THELMA (A10) - Built in 1897, and rare in that she was built outside New Zealand but designed by Arch Logan, the gaff-rigged Thelma was for many years seen racing in Mediterranean waters before she...
Date: 27 January 2020
Image ID 11952

290. SPEARHEAD (9219) an Elliott 1050 heads WAKA (8907) a Thompson 850, during racing offshore from the Tamaki Yacht Club, Auckland.
Date: 25 July 2020
Image ID 12338

291. THE BLACK PEARL (9117, a Young 13m) on port tack, SURETHING (8041, an Elliot 12) and WAKA (8907, a Thompson 850) on starboard) in close quarter racing off the Tamaki Yacht Club, Auckland.
Date: 25 July 2020
Image ID 12439

292. STEINLAGER II - a Bruce Farr-designed yacht. Skippered by Peter Blake, she won the 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Race and line honours in the 1989 Fastnet Race. She was the only yacht to ever...
Date: 2 August 2020
Image ID 12257

293. WATCHMAN - the patrol/committee boat of Auckland's Ponsonby Cruising Club, based at Westhaven Marina.
Date: 5 September 2020
Image ID 12320

294. ROA - built in the late 1920's/early 1930's by Sam Ford, was once a mussel dredge for the Coromandel Mussel Dredging Company passes the yacht ALLERGY with the yacht HYSTERIA in the background.
Date: 5 September 2020
Image ID 12447

295. ATHENS GLORY (2003/75484grt/81171dwt/IMO 9247766, ex-NYK ATHENA) at 299m is the largest container ship to call at Auckland. She sailed in today following an earlier call at the port of...
Date: 12 September 2020
Image ID 12078

296. TE AIHE - Emirates Team New Zealand AC75 scorching up the Waitemata Harbour, Auckland during trials for the upcoming Americas Cup regatta.
Date: 17 September 2020
Image ID 12273

297. TE AIHE - Emirates Team New Zealand AC75 scorching up the Waitemata Harbour, Auckland during trials for the upcoming Americas Cup regatta.
Date: 17 September 2020
Image ID 12274

298. TE AIHE - Emirates Team New Zealand AC75 seen during trialling on the Waitemata Harbour, Auckland in preparation for the upcoming Americas Cup regatta.
Date: 17 September 2020
Image ID 12334

299. THELMA (A10) - Built in 1897 by Arch Logan, the gaff-rigged Thelma was for many years seen racing in Mediterranean waters before she was restored and shipped home to New Zealand in 2002 by new owners....
Date: 19 September 2020
Image ID 12281

300. IDA (A11) - a gaff-rigged cutter built in 1895 by C&W Bailey was recently fully restored by Wayne Olsen and Mike Smith at the Horizon Boats shipyard at Stillwater. IDA had previously been Australian...
Date: 19 September 2020
Image ID 12434

301. AMERICAN MAGIC - New York Yacht Club's AC-75 entry in the Prada Cup/Americas Cup held in Auckland in 2020/2021. AMERICAN MAGIC was eliminated in the Prada Cup races.
Date: 24 September 2020
Image ID 12446